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noria
A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
noria
Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.
The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet.
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